Institutions and Sustainability: Political Economy of Agriculture and the Environment - Essays in Honour of Konrad Hagedorn

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Volker Beckmann, Martina Padmanabhan
Springer Science & Business Media, 2009 M02 7 - 388 pages
From the first vague idea to use Konrad Hagedorn’s 60th birthday as an inspi- tion for taking stock of his vibrant academic contributions, this joint book project has been a great pleasure for us in many ways. Pursuing Hagedorn’s intellectual development, we have tried to reflect on the core questions of humanity according to Ernst Bloch “Who are we?”, “Where do we come from?” and “Where are we heading?” In this way, and without knowing it, Konrad Hagedorn initiated a c- lective action process he would have very much enjoyed ... if he had been allowed to take part in it. But it was our aim and constant motivation to surprise him with this collection of essays in his honour. Konrad Hagedorn was reared as the youngest child of a peasant family on a small farm in the remote moorland of East Frisia, Germany. During his childhood in the poverty-ridden years after the Second World War, he faced a life where humans were heavily dependent on using nature around them for their livelihoods; meanwhile, he learned about the fragility of the environment. As a boy, he - tended a one-room schoolhouse, where his great intellectual talents were first r- ognised and used for co-teaching his schoolmates. These early teaching expe- ences might have laid the foundations for his later becoming a dedicated lecturer and mentor.

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The Political Economy of Agricultural Reform in Transition Countries 27 Scott Rozelle and Johan F M Swinnen
27
Make Law Not War? On the Political Economy of Violence
43
The Reform of the Farmers
61
The Possible Role of Hybrid Governance
175
Linking Institutional Robustness with the Ecological Resilience
195
The Downgrading Effect of Abuse of Power on Trust
223
Interactions with Property
243
Sustainability Institutions and Behavior
293
The Role of Mental
315
What Method to Apply? 341
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Index
373
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